{"id":589,"date":"2013-01-14T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2013-01-14T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:54:02","slug":"home-made-rat-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Home made rat trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our local rat hobbled off with my springy rat trap Oliver and I decided to follow some plans from the internet and build our own home-brew rat trap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2013\/01\/14\/home-made-rat-trap\/2013-01-12-09-31-53\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-590\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.31.53-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2013-01-12 09.31.53\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.31.53-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.31.53.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My willing assistant and his spade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had to dig a hole in the ground and insert a smooth sided bucket<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-592\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2013\/01\/14\/home-made-rat-trap\/2013-01-12-09-34-45-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-592\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.34.451-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2013-01-12 09.34.45\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.34.451-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.34.451.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bucket...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-593\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2013\/01\/14\/home-made-rat-trap\/2013-01-12-09-39-13\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.39.13-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2013-01-12 09.39.13\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.39.13-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.39.13.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The hole...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-594\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2013\/01\/14\/home-made-rat-trap\/2013-01-12-09-41-04\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-594\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.41.04-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2013-01-12 09.41.04\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.41.04-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-09.41.04.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bucket in the hole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s necessary to thread some stiff wire through the centre of a corn cob so that it can spin.  The idea being that the rat crawls along the wire to eat the corn, spins around and splashes into the water below&#8230;and drowns.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-595\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/2013\/01\/14\/home-made-rat-trap\/2013-01-12-12-04-47\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-595\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-12.04.47-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2013-01-12 12.04.47\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-12.04.47-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/2013-01-12-12.04.47.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here ratty ratty ratty ratty ratty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t caught anything yet but as usual I&#8217;m eternally optimistic, and if in a few days I still haven&#8217;t caught anything then I&#8217;ll add peanut butter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our local rat hobbled off with my springy rat trap Oliver and I decided to follow some plans from the internet and build our own home-brew rat trap. 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